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JDRF

http://tlc.gaia.com — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:49:23 GMT

My nephew Oliver is a handsome and courageous young man that steps forward into his life and does battle with juvenile diabetes. His family has created Oliver's Army with the help of JDRF. We all need each other. If you can help, check this out.

http://walk.jdrf.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=extranet.personalpage&confirmid=86885978

"If you can imagine it, you can accomplish it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
William Arthur

Tags: life, health, family, hope, inspiration

Mother Earth

http://tlc.gaia.com — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:36:59 GMT

Did you hear that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize?
He plans to use the notoriety to bring more awareness
to global warming and the environmental emergency.

Save Mother Earth! Where else will you live? ;-)

http://www.earthday.net/resources/2006materials/Top10.aspx

Tags: earth, environment, reduce, reuse, recycle

Fade into You

http://tlc.gaia.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:26:44 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysu-o4oCVSA

Tags: music, love

Daffodils

http://tlc.gaia.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:36:37 GMT

Thanks Bri~

The Daffodil Principle

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead "I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.

"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"

My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother." "Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.

"But first we're going to see the daffodils. It's just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "I'll drive. I'm used to this."

"Carolyn," I said sternly, "please turn around." "It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden." We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.

It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers.

"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn. "Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home." Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house.

On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking", was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the
Greatest principles of celebration.

That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time-often just one baby-step at time-and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world ...

"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn. "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"

My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. "Start tomorrow," she said.

She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"

Use the Daffodil Principle. Stop waiting.....

Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die...

There is no better time than right now to be happy.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don't need money.
Love like you've never been hurt, and, Dance like no one's watching.

If you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special.

I just did!

Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

Tags: Life, love

Come F? me up...

http://tlc.gaia.com — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:13:06 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_5nlikNAj4&mode=related&search=

not to offend but the use of these words make the difference...this one speaks to me!

Tags: love, relationships, passion, music, hope

We are what we do!

http://tlc.gaia.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:45:38 GMT

In the immortal words of Aristotle: "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

~Whether it be health, education or love, the acts we participate in or the actions we take toward our goals are revelations to our being. Another quote" How we do this one thing, we do all things." So then one must ask oneself, what am I doing, what action am I taking and does it reflect who I am and moreover who I want to be?

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Yes!

http://tlc.gaia.com — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:55:52 GMT

"And after that final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends."

- Wallace Stevens.

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Faith, real faith

http://tlc.gaia.com — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:29:55 GMT

When you come to the end of everything you know
And are faced with the darkness of the unknown,
Faith is knowing one of two things will happen.
Either there will be something solid for you to stand on,
Or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter

Tags: faith, trust

Somebody

http://tlc.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:45:16 GMT

I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone wholl stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
Shell get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
Shell hear me out
And wont easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact shell often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me
Aaaahhhhh....

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone wholl help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I dont want to be tied
To anyones strings
Im carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when Im asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
Ill get away with it
Aaaahhhhh....

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Save the earth!

http://tlc.gaia.com — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:04:40 GMT

http://www.liveearth.msn.com/

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E.B.White

http://tlc.gaia.com — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:46:10 GMT

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

E. B. White

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Free Yourself

http://tlc.gaia.com — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:49:07 GMT

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. Albert Einstein

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Phenominal woman

http://tlc.gaia.com — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:50:23 GMT

PHENOMENAL WOMAN
by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies
I'm not cute or built to suit a model's fashion size
But when I start to tell them
They think I'm telling lies.
I say
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips
The stride of my steps
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please
And to a man
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees
Then they swarm around me
A hive of honey bees.
I say
It's the fire in my eyes
And the flash of my teeth
The swing of my waist
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say
It's in the arch of my back
The sun of my smile
The ride of my breasts
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say
It's in the click of my heels
The bend of my hair
The palm of my hand
The need for my care.
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Tags: love, spiritual, woman

No, really! Really, really!

http://tlc.gaia.com — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:19:08 GMT

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.James Alllen

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beliefs

http://tlc.gaia.com — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:50:34 GMT

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

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